School: Cúige na Mainseár
- Location:
- Quignamanger, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Antoine Mac Amhaghladha
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- The time of the famine in Ireland the people were starving of hunger for they had no money to buy anything.
Here and there you might chance on a little shop. Sometimes when the people would go in for anything the shopkeeper would not have time to give it to them for they would fall dead in the shop. One family of people barred up the windows and bolted the doors and lay down to die. Some of the neighbours bursted in the door but they(continues on next page)- Collector
- William Melvin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Anne Craig
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- Over 90
- Address
- Quignamanger, Co. Mayo